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Tip of the Nose
On Smell and Language
“Wow, it smells wonderful!” I exclaim as we enter the neighborhood bakery. “It smells, it smells so… nutty.” Hmm, that’s not quite the word that I wanted to say, I think to myself. Ever since...
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Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Inclusive Space
- Queering Intersectionality in The Critical Visitor20Jul 2020How to open up the institutions of museums and archives for outsider voices? The Critical Visitor research project looks into the hotly debated issues of diversity and inclusion in the fields of...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Meet the Next Generation
- Vijf 'Pink Seniors' over roze ouder worden18Jul 2020Roze senioren, LHBTI-ouderen... Twintig jaar geleden bestonden deze termen nog niet. Maar de huidige generatie 65-plussers is trots op haar roze identiteit en is zeker niet van plan deze op hogere...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Queer Currents 2020: Queer Manifesto Reading
- A collective reading of the Queer Nation Manifesto by Girls Like Us22Jul 2020Girls Like Us is currently working on their first non-magazine publication: a collection of Queer & Feminist manifestos, edited by Liz Allan. In preparation for this project, they invite you to join...
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Dan Asher
Een antropoloog op Mars
De Amerikaanse Dan Asher (1947 - 2010) was beeldend kunstenaar in tijdperk Warhol en Basquiat. Gedurende zijn leven maakte hij een ecclectische verzameling aan schilderijen, sculpturen, films en foto'...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
The Smell That Sells
- Odorama 35 - with Jorg Hempenius, Rick Schifferstein, and Niklaus Mettler22Nov 2019In the field of marketing, scents are a goldmine. With their ability to influence moods and choices, they can be very effective marketing tools. There is an increasingly professional level of...
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Bibliography
Olfactory History of Oosterdok
English bibliography Allen , Catherine. “To be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca Chewing in Highland Peru”. American Ethnologist , 8, no. 1 (February 1981): 157-171. doi:10.1525/ae.1981.8.1.02a00100.
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Taco Dibbits
Director of the Rijksmuseum
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Wim Pijbes
Former art director of the Rijksmuseum
Willem Meint Jans "Wim" Pijbes is a Dutch art historian and emeritus General Director of the Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam . He is one of the minds behind the museum's complete refurbishment and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop
Invisible Collection
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to not be able to look at art? With this auditory collection, we discover art with all our senses except sight. How do you experience art without looking at it?
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Paul Keller
Paul Keller is director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think tank focussing on new forms of innovation for a more open and inclusive society. Paul works with governments, cultural heritage...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Kapitein Knut en het Stomme Gevaar
- Het nieuwe boek van Kapitein Knut17Feb 2018Genoeg van al die witte kool? Op zaterdagmiddag 17 februari presenteert Kapitein Knut zijn nieuwe boek. Kom langs voor een nieuwe dosis avonturen tussen Mediamatic's wintervoorraad witte kool. ...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Perfumed Words
- Odorama 19 - with Han van der Vegt, Bas Belleman, Sander Bink, Marcello Aspria and Anna de Waard19Oct 2017Poetry and literature have a lot in common with perfumes and scent compositions. Scents, like stories, evolve over time and trigger emotional states and memories. Like time-based narratives, they...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Das Mag Festival x Marijke Schermer
- Leesclub over Marijke Schermer's Noodweer20May 2017Tijd om je leesbril op te zetten! Das Mag and Mediamatic nodigen je uit voor Das Mag Festival 2017, waar de pareltjes van de Nederlandse literaire wereld gevierd worden. Bij Mediamatic zal Marijke...
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Leonie Alpheus
Programme & Events
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Michalis Skourtaniotis
Event programming & Communications
At Mediamatic i assist with programming and executing events. I have a background in economics and management consulting and an affinity for the creative world as well as the commercial one. I enjoy...
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Anne-Marieke Zaal
Graphic design
Ex-graphic designer at Mediamatic Studying Graphic Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Zwolle. Passion for nature, photography and graphic design.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Lancering Das Magazin
- #18: De Blik2Jun 2016Met Bent van Looy als gastredacteur zal Das Mag hun 18de editie lanceren bij Mediamatic met o.a. Muziek van Bent Van Looy, een interview met Catherine Lacey, de auteur van 'Niemand is ooit verloren'...
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De Balie, Amsterdam
Writing for Change
- Re:Creating Europe with Laura Starink2Jun 2016Can a writer’s words make a difference in Ukraine and Poland, two of Europe’s fast changing countries?
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'Best of Mediamatic' [Magazine] book
A proposal from 1994
In 1994 Mediamatic did a proposal for Verso in London, about a 'Best of' of articles from the Mediamatic Magazine. The following is a transcript of the proposal.
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Mediamatic Biotoop
de Successtaker - de wortels van de creativiteit
- Boekpresentatie zondag 29 mei29May 2016Laten we ons bevrijden uit de dwang om bij elke creatieve activiteit meteen de winstkansen en een zo groot mogelijk publieksbereik in te moeten calculeren. Gun je observaties en ideeën voortaan de...